Description |
x, 404 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Contents note continued: 9.Forms of resistance: songs and perceptions of power in colonial Mozambique / Landeg White -- 10.Fire on the mountain: resisting colonialism in Algeria / David Prochaska -- 11.The war of degradation: black women's struggle against Orange Free State pass laws, 1913 / Julia C. Wells -- 12.Property, protest, and politics in Bugisu, Uganda / Stephen G. Bunker -- SECTION IV Rebellion -- 13.̀Black snake, white snake': Bahta Hagos and his revolt against Italian overrule in Eritrea, 1894 / Richard Caulk -- 14.̀The drum is greater than the shout': the 1912 rebellion in northern Rwanda / Alison L. Des Forges -- 15.Mekatalili and the role of women in Giriama resistance / Cynthia Brantley -- 16.Class, ideology and the Bambatha rebellion / Shula Marks -- 17.Bandits and guerrillas: the case of Zimbabwe / Terence Ranger |
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Machine generated contents note: SECTION I Criminality -- 1.Murder and theft in early nineteenth-century Elmina / Larry W. Yarak -- 2.Theft and social protest among the tin miners of northern Nigeria / William Freund -- 3.̀Like a roaring lion': Tabwa terrorism in the late nineteenth century / Allen F. Roberts -- SECTION II Banditry -- 4.Social bandits and other heroic criminals: Western models of resistance and their relevance for Africa / Ralph A. Austen -- 5.̀I am here to plunder on the general road': Bandits and banditry in the pre-nineteenth century Gold Coast / Ray A. Kea -- 6.Banditry and resistance: noble and peasant in nineteenth-century Ethiopia / Donald Crummey -- 7.Social mobility and dissident elites in northern Ethiopia: the role of banditry, 1900--69 / Timothy Fernyhough -- 8.Bushman banditry in twentieth-century Namibia / Robert Gordon -- SECTION III Protest and resistance -- |
Notes |
Cover title: Banditry, rebellion & social protest in Africa |
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Selection of rev. papers presented in a symposium on Rebellion and Social Protest in Africa, held at the Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in April 1982 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
Subject |
Brigands and robbers -- Africa -- History.
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Brigands and robbers -- Africa.
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Dissenters -- Africa.
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Radicalism -- Africa -- History.
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Dissenters -- Africa -- History.
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Radicalism -- Africa.
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Social conflict -- Africa -- History.
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Social conflict -- Africa.
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SUBJECT |
Africa http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531 -- Colonialization
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Africa -- Colonization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001542
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Author |
Crummey, Donald.
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LC no. |
85027352 |
ISBN |
0435080113 (U.S. : pbk.) |
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